Lucy is a champion sleeper. We are really grateful for that, and hope that one of these days we can follow her example and sleep for twelve hours straight at night. But, as with anything, there are some drawbacks.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I truly appreciate Lucy’s ability to sleep so fabulously through the whole night: Jon and I have time together in the evenings, Lucy is rested and happy, and it makes for an easy task for a babysitter. But we do encounter some challenges having gone the “cry it out” route.
Here are the top ten drawbacks to Lucy’s sleep mastery:
10. The crying (but that’s only for the first few weeks).
9. We can’t put baby laundry away in her room after bedtime. And forget about vacuuming in there.
8. No more “late-night movies”:/news/2006/sleeping-through-the-movie/ with Lucy.
7. Wondering if we should have left the window open in her room.
6. Wondering if we should have left the window closed in her room.
5. It’s hard for us all to sleep in the same room when we travel.
4. The mini silk eyeshades and baby maribou slippers are really starting to drive us into debt.
3. That “running-stream sound”:/news/2006/white-noise/ makes me have to pee.
2. Lucy’s the only one who gets to snuggle with “Barney Bear”:/news/2007/one-of-a-kind/.
1. We miss seeing our baby sleeping!
Oh well, it’s a tough price to pay, but I guess we’ll just have to put up with it!
Hey, don’t worry about it. Give it a few more months. There will come a time when she’ll be sprawled in her crib, and you can roll her, shake her by the leg, do the cha-cha in her room and she will still be snoring away, knocked out oblivious. I never realized that when toddlers play hard, they also sleep hard. Hang in there!
But as for the baby laundry, well, yeah, I don’t put it in when Daniel’s sleeping either in case he wakes up. (That’s what I tell myself, anyway)
We can check on Benjamin an hour or two after he falls asleep without him waking up. He did wake up once, but went right back to sleep – I don’t think he even realized we were in there.
Yep eventually you can do anything and not wake her! Unfortunately when those molars start coming in (the 1 year molars seem to be the most disruptive) and you just pray for the sleep you were getting. I’ll let you know when I’m done praying and back to sleeping.
We went for the heartbeat sound so we didn’t have to pee so much! And now we can go in and look at her without waking her. I can even give her a dose of meds while she is sleeping and she doesn’t wake up! (she has 8 teeth coming in right now…I love motrine).
I must say sleep is so good…so good that the thought of another baby and less sleep seems crazy!
Maddy would love to splash with Lucy….I think in her past life she was a fish!